On today’s BradCast, America’s longest war is over. So why isn’t anyone happy? It’s NICOLE SANDLER back to fill in for Brad and Desi again on the day after the end of the war. [Audio link to full show is posted below.]
I feel as if I stand alone among my media colleagues in applauding President Biden’s courage and action. War is messy. It’s ugly. People die. People die violent, ugly deaths. It’s war. It’s bad. And we’re finally done with this one. And that’s a very good thing.
My guest today is STEPHEN MILES from Win Without War, and is one of the few anti-war voices I’ve heard on the air (and it’s only because I brought him on!)
Seriously, the corporate media is falling all over themselves to prove they can be critical of Biden as well as Trump. But this focus on the last two weeks and the exit from Afghanistan without mentioning the last 20 years is beyond frustrating. On top of that, the ‘experts’ they’re bringing on are the people who got us into this mess in the first place. The pinnacle of hypocrisy holds court for two hours each weekday afternoon on MSNBC. Nicolle Wallace was Communications Director under George W. Bush, and she has the nerve to criticize the President who had the balls to get us out of there? Infuriating.
President Biden actually delivered a great speech today. Though you wouldn’t know if from the headlines. For example, an alert from The Hill just hit my inbox. The headline: “Defensive Biden Tries to Put Afghanistan Behind Him”. The story that went with it was even more offensive…
The president also sought to reframe the underlying argument. He asserted that the U.S. had no “vital interest” in Afghanistan that had been left unaccomplished, given that Osama bin Laden had been killed in neighboring Pakistan a decade ago and al-Qaeda had been long ago weakened.
Still, some of Biden’s claims strained credulity, especially his implication that the U.S. withdrawal had gone broadly to plan.
Note that they didn’t label that an editorial. That’s what they presented as “news.” Fox seems to have won. I’m nauseated.
Biden’s speech today was, for some reason, in the middle of the day. I’d think a speech this important would be in prime time, but I guess the Administration is reading the same crap I am, and just wanted to make the statement and move on. So I thought I’d share with you some of the speech, as most probably didn’t get to hear it in the middle of the work day. I fit in most of it. But you can watch the whole speech here. Just don’t read the comments or you’ll feel nauseous too…
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